I attended Trisha Espinoza’s Q & A on career advice. Trisha is currently the VP of programming at BET and has worked at MTV and Oxygen. Trisha stressed the importance of getting out of your comfort zone when it comes
The first of many insights
I was only able to attend one panel on Monday but I’m so glad I did. Chris Perez at the Entrepreneurial Thinking session was such a breath of fresh air. When you live in a world that says you have
MC week pt. 1
The talk with Chris Perez about entrepreneurial thinking was amazing and inspiring. He talked about starting Citygram. He had some great advise for college students. I’m not all that interested in being an entrepreneur but Chris said one thing that
Media portrayals and best practices for reporting on people with disabilities
I visited a few panels so far this week, and have enjoyed all. The one that stuck out to me most was the Disability Panel. Our own coding classmate, Paige Lambert was the moderator today with the panel. Paige asked
Mass Comm Week (1st half)
Unfortunately, because of my schedule I have only been able to attend two mass comm events so far, but both were really good. The first was entrepreneurial Thinking with Chris Perez of Citygram and Left Right Media. He gave a
“Creation is Human Nature” – Entrepreneurial Thinking at MC Week
Today’s Mass Comm Week exploration involved entrepreneurial thinking, presented by Chris Perez , CEO at Left/Right Media. Trained as an electrical engineer, his passions for business led him to form the mobile application CityGram, a kind of “city guide in your
Excel Spreadsheet Exercise
For my spreadsheet exercise, I pulled data from the US Census Report. The population numbers on the CSV file I used were scored by age, and I simplified it by categorizing the ages into age groups spanning from 0-18, 19-34,
Top 1500 Party Songs broken down by genre
I had a hard time finding any meaningful data (about music at least) that i wanted to work with for this preliminary excel exercise. I eventually found a database of 70,000 songs for DJ’s to use so potential clients can
Growth of Texas State university broken down through data
Texas State has seen a huge amount of growth, especially within these last couple years. I decided to look at the enrollment data on the university’s website to analyze the data in regards to ethnicity. The university has always
Telling a Story With Excel
The growth of Central Texas absolutely astonished me when I moved here from east Texas. So, I looked at census records to compare the growth of my hometown county and its surrounding counties and the counties I live near now.